It was absolute torture. I had “bad hair” (just imagine what that term does to a young black girl’s self esteem !). Every two weeks, my grandmother would grease up my hair and straighten and style my hair with iron combs and curlers which were heated on the stove til they glowed red hot. This resulted in extremely…

I’m in the Army. We do the Combat Water Survival Test every year. It’s a good laugh if you want to see 200+ blindfolded people walk off a diving board holding a rifle.

I’m so thankful to women like Zendaya who are normalising fake hair. I’m a white woman who wears a lace front wig due to severe trichlomania. It’s seriously amazingly how fascinated non-wig wearers are when they find out about it, and I think most of the white women I know would secretly love to wear a bunch of…

J Lo is the ultimate secret wig wearer. She’s tricky in that she’ll wear her bio hair in a bun or something so you assume it’s always all her but in many photos, you can see the deep set parting at the bangs to distract from the lace front and how she’ll pull ‘baby hairs’ in front to mask the line.

“Women have very little idea of how much men hate them”

Yeah, there used to be a rule until conservatives started bashing Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 1990s, made cruel jokes about Chelsea Clinton’s looks, and all that jazz. And then in 2008, when they made horrible comments about Michelle Obama and questioning her gender because she’s more fit than some women half her…

Melania Trump is hardly a stand-in for American women, she is neither a victim nor she is lacking agency. Rather she’s an active participant working to construct Donald Trump’s narrative readily available to put a gauzy domestic veil on his racism and misogyny.

I don’t see people slut shaming her as much as using her as an example of Republican hypocrisy. Michelle Obama was roundly ridiculed as unacceptable for the role of FLOTUS for wearing sleeveless dresses. Melania posed nude (and likely engaged in more wanton activities) and she’s a paragon of American values and a…

Or maybe she really believes the right-wing crazy talk (she’s from Slovenia and most of what she knows of US politics is filtered through her husband!), and she’s ALSO being treated badly. He doesn’t have to literally be holding her prisoner in order for her to do the talk show circuits and spout conspiracy theory.

http://time.com/3309687/why-women-stay-in-abusive-relationships/

Yes! I can feel sorry for her and still think she is not that great of a person.

OK, you need to stop saying “You” because we are not talking about me. I am intimately familiar with these movements you reference and have spent my education, career and free time working on a number of issues including poverty and justice system reform. Don’t say I won’t stick around—I’ve been here for 24 years and…

So protests only matter when you’re uncomfortable and/or under threat of violence? Someone downthread described this as a “woker-than-thou” contest, and she/he is exactly right.

My $0.02, FWIW.

I’m kind of torn on that argument, because while I recognize that trans women are women, and they’re very welcome in the women’s rights movement, a lot of what we were fighting for at the Women’s March was access to reproductive rights, which is directly tied to most of us having uteri and ovaries. A cause doesn’t…

I also don’t agree with the idea that my talking about my own uterus without adding an aside that uterus does not equal woman is an act of erasure. Talking about my own body doesn’t erase anyone, or mean I’m against trans rights. The kids on tumblr are EMPHATIC that women like me must always refer to themselves a…

I saw a meme complaining that all the signs about pussies and uteruses contributed to trans erasure. I read that piece of criticism as saying that cisgendered women shouldn’t stand up against sexual assault (highlighting Trump’s “pussy” comment) or reproductive rights (“uterus”) because trans women have it worse.…

“....the centering of white women in the media and amongst themselves. The notion that the need for protest has “just begun” with the election of Donald Trump, too, was deserving of critique, particularly considering A) the Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock movements of the past several years and B) the entire…

Sohrab is Tomatoface, so don’t concern yourself too much with his bullshit.

Great, all the idiots who flunked history are now running the government.